The monsoon withdrawal process continues to be stalled along the Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat alignment.

But the dry nortwesterlies fanning into the Bay of Bengal have cut a trough across the Bay, held in place by two circulations over Assam and Meghalaya to the northeast and north Tamil Nadu in the southwest.

This trough coupled with an east-west shear zone (featuring opposing winds in the higher levels) over the south peninsula has been causing some weather in the region.

Global models suggested the trough would move closer to the coast and bring more organised rains into peninsular later during the week.

An India Meteorological Department (IMD) update said that the 24 hours ending Sunday morning saw fairly widespread rainfall being reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the remnant monsoon circulation.

The rains were scattered over the Northeastern States, Madhya Maharashtra, interior Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Isolated rain fell over the western Himalayan region, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Konkan, Goa and Kerala.

Meanwhile, northwest India too is expected to witness its share of weather with the arrival of a western disturbance later during the week.

The IMD said that the westerly system would affect western Himalayan region and adjoining plains from Tuesday.

A forecast valid until Wednesday said that the remnant monsoon circulation would continue to cause fairly widespread rain or thundershowers over Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Fairly widespread rain or thundershower would also occur over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Monday and Tuesday.

Scattered rain or thundershowers are likely over the rest of the Northeastern States, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

After 120 days of South West Monsoon, we finally have a winner and it is Amagaon from Karnataka. The legend Cherrapunji managed to cross 6000 mm mark. Amagaon & Hulikal were clear winners in 2011 SWM season.

I will still continue to rank the toppers in North East Monsoon too. From Tamil Nadu, Chinna Kallar made the list with 4800 mm rainfall. Watch out for this place in NEM. It gets rains in NEM too.

All India

Rainfall in mm's (Min 4000 mm)

Amagaon (Karnataka) - 8965

Hulikal (Karnataka) - 8311

Amboli (Maharashtra) - 7449

Kollur (Karnataka) - 7427

Agumbe (Karnataka) - 7405

Gaganbawada (Maharashtra) - 6900

Gavali (Karnataka) - 6775

Sangameshwar (Maharashtra) - 6698

Mulshi Dam (Maharashtra) - 6471

Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra) - 6464

Cherrapunji (Meghalaya) - 6140

Patagon Dam (Maharashtra) - 6027

Kasari Dam (Maharashtra) - 5870

Bhira (Maharashtra) - 5725

Kerveshe (Karnataka) - 5696

Radhanagri Dam (Maharashtra) - 5421

Koyna Dam (Maharashtra) - 5419

Kadra (Karnataka) - 5325

Lonavala Dam (Maharashtra) - 5318

Siddapura (Karnataka) - 5289

Gerosoppa (Karnataka) - 5206

Tillari (Maharashtra) - 5066

Gorkhana (Karnataka) - 5038

Mandangad (Maharashtra) - 4840

Ajekar (Karnataka) - 4820

Valpoi (Goa) - 4817

Dapoli (Maharashtra) - 4813

Chinna Kallar (Tamil Nadu) - 4800

Chiplun (Maharashtra) - 4690

Vaibhavwadi (Maharshtra) - 4638

Rajapur (Maharashtra) - 4542

Kankavli (Maharashtra) - 4534

Bhagamandala (Karnataka) - 4532

Tulshi Lake (Maharashtra) - 4526

Sawantwadi (Maharashtra) - 4480

Mhasla (Maharashtra) - 4445

Karkala (Karnataka) - 4422

Lanja (Maharashtra) - 4402

Matheran (Maharashtra) - 4400

Walwand (Maharashtra) - 4393

Ratnagiri (Maharashtra) - 4369

Dodamarg (Maharashtra) - 4291

Quepem (Goa) - 4285

Sudhgad (Maharashtra) - 4282

Bhatkal (Karnataka) - 4266

Radhanagri (Maharashtra) -4262

Vadakara (Kerala) - 4231

Malvan (Maharashtra) - 4219

Tala (Mahrashtra) - 4170

Kudal (Maharashtra) - 4078

Honavar (Karnataka) - 4073

Pawna (Maharashtra) - 4057

Sanguem (Goa) - 4047

Ponda (Goa) - 4042

Kottigehara (Karnataka) - 4031

Udupi (Karnataka) - 4026

Khed (Maharashtra) - 4002

Places such as Tamini, Hulikal, Nilkund, Mawsynarm, Poochippara, Walakkad and Castle Rock would have also made the above 4000 mm list.

Major Cities

Apart from the above places, the rank of India's Major Cities (Population above 2 million) for the SWM are as follows
Rainfall in mm SWM total

Mumbai – 3155

Kolkata – 1403

Bhopal - 1266

Surat – 1218

Lucknow – 1046

Indore - 982

Nagpur – 911

Patna - 871

Pune – 803

Chennai – 789

Ahmedabad – 728

Jaipur – 675

Delhi – 622

Bangalore – 540

Hyderabad – 528

For Chennai monsoon (NEM) is yet to begin, i am sure it will end second in the list behind for the year behind Mumbai.

Region wise SWM Toppers
With limited available data, the following are the region wise toppers (Rainfall in mm SWM total)